Word: inscrutableã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Japanese enigma Nobukazu Takemura tried to up the ante with his live performance, but following initial problems with the machines (always a bad thing at “electronica” shows), the effect was almost numbing. Takemura’s compositions are largely inscrutable??exuberant and tangled webs of bleeps, squelches and drums occasionally verging on 180 beat-per-minute gabba tempos. This was performance, not participatory, music. The audience could do nothing but stand and let the waves of noise wash over them as Takemura and his labelmate Aki Tsuyoko tweaked the controls...
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